2. The Passive Classroom SHARE YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING
ILLUSTRATIONS!
3. HOW DOES CONSTRUCTIVISM DEAL WITH TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS?
In the constructivist classroom, the focus tends to create an
interactive condition between the teacher and the students. In this
case, the classroom is no longer a place where the teacher pours
knowledge into passive students, who wait like empty vessels to be
filled.
4. In the constructivist classroom, the students are urged to
be actively involved in their own process of learning. In the
constructivist classroom, the teacher is a facilitator who coaches,
mediates, suggests, and helps students develop and assess their
understanding in learning process.
5. In the constructivist classroom, the teacher and the
students do not think of knowledge as an information to be
memorized, but as a dynamic, ever-changing view of the world we
live in, and the ability to successfully achieve and explore that
view.
6. IN A CONSTRUCTIVIST CLASSROOM, LEARNING IS:
7. 1. Constructed Students come to learning situation with
already formulated knowledge, ideas, and understandings. This
previous knowledge is the raw material for the new knowledge they
will construct and create.
8. The teacher coaches, moderates, suggests, but allows the
students to conduct experiment, ask questions, or try things that
do not work. Learning activities require the students' full
participation, such as the hands-on experiments, etc. An important
part of the learning process is that students actively talk about
their activities. 2. Active
9. Students control their own learning process, and they lead
the way by reflecting on their experiences. This process makes them
experts of their own learning. The teacher helps to create
situations where the students feel safe questioning and reflecting
on their own processes, either privately or in group discussions.
3. Reflective
10. The constructivist classroom relies heavily on
collaboration among students. The students not only learn from
themselves, but also from their peers. When students review and
reflect on their learning process together, they can pick up
strategies and methods from one another. 4. Collaborative
11. The main activity in a constructivist classroom is solving
problems. Students use inquiry methods to ask questions,
investigate a topic, and use a variety of resources to find
solutions and answers. Students explore the topic and draw
conclusions. Exploration of a topic leads to more questions. 5.
Inquiry-Based
12. Students have ideas that they may later see were invalid,
incorrect, or insufficient to explain new experiences. These ideas
are temporary steps in the integration of knowledge. Constructivist
teaching takes into account students current conceptions and builds
from there. 6. Evolving